Selenium Java SDK

v4.11.1 (2025-04-04)

• Switching to the engine 14.23.0
• Changed reporters dependencies.
• Enabled Support Iframe by default.

v4.10.3 (2025-03-24)

• Minor improvements.

v4.10.2 (2025-03-18)

• Async user action handling for alerts

v4.10.1 (2025-03-11)

• Switching to the Analysis Web 14.20.1

v4.9.4 (2025-03-10)

• Minor improvements

v4.9.3 (2025-02-25)

• Extend RemoteWebDriver support

v4.9.2 (2025-02-17)

• Add RemoteWebDriver support

v4.9.1 (2025-02-12)

• Switching to the Analysis Web 14.19.0

v4.8.3 (2025-02-11)

• Fix proxy parsing bug

v4.8.2 (2025-02-03)

• Fix proxy/setCredentials bug

v4.8.1 (2025-01-31)

• Switching to the Analysis Web 14.16.0

v4.7.3 (2025-01-27)

• Update engine initialisation with licence data

v4.7.2 (2025-01-08)

• Moved Error and Logs to common module

v4.7.1 (2025-01-02)

• Switching to the Analysis Web 14.13.0

v4.6.3 (2024-12-25)

• Token verification on sdk side

v4.6.2 (2024-12-21)

• Start using java common web sdk

v4.6.1 (2024-11-26)

• Switching to the engine 14.8.2

v4.5.7 (2024-11-26)

• Remove dependency on webdrivermanager

v4.5.6 (2024-11-19)

• Fix creating empty folder for log files

v4.5.4 (2024-11-18)

• Add additional logging

v4.5.3 (2024-11-05)

• Updating License info

v4.5.1 (2024-10-23)

• Switching to the engine 14.4.1

v4.4.1 (2024-10-18)

• Switching to the engine 14.3.0

v4.3.3 (2024-10-11)

• Fix discrepancy between local and reports uploaded to platform

v4.3.2 (2024-10-10)

• Screenshot bug fix

v4.3.1 (2024-10-08)

• Minor bugfixes

v4.2.1 (2024-08-30)

• Switching to the engine 13.2.0

v4.1.8 (2024-08-29)

• Remove toggle to include issues collected by evAnalyze() into the aggregated report. Included by default.

v4.1.7 (2024-08-23)

• Additional improvements

v4.1.6 (2024-08-15)

• Issues collected by evAnalyze() can be included into the aggregated report

v4.1.5 (2024-08-13)

• Update Duplicate filtering rules for issues

v4.1.4 (2024-07-29)

• Move hardcoded values to separate classes

v4.1.3 (2024-07-15)

• Minor improvements after migrating to engine 13.1.2

v4.1.2 (2024-07-10)

• Update package files

v4.1.1 (2024-07-05)

• Switching to the engine 13.1.2

v4.0.2 (2024-07-03)

• Disable redundant report directory creation.

v4.0.1 (2024-06-25)

• Driver change, stop supporting Selenium 3

v3.5.1 (2024-06-25)

• Switching to the engine 13.1.0

v3.4.5 (2024-06-24)

• Json in Mobile format added.

v3.4.4 (2024-06-07)

• Screenshots are added to json report.

v3.4.3 (2024-05-10)

• Additional improvements to logging.

v3.4.2 (2024-04-17)

• The Upload to the platform feature added.

v3.4.1 (2024-04-03)

• Switching to the engine 12.2.2

v3.3.4 (2024-03-29)

• Fix Axe KnowledgeBaseLink issue

v3.3.3 (2024-03-14)

• Additional improvements

v3.3.2 (2024-03-13)

• Additional improvements for saving reports

v3.3.1 (2024-03-07)

• Switching to the engine 12.1.2

v3.2.2 (2024-02-27)

• Adding new options for engine configuration.

v3.2.1 (2024-02-27)

• Switching to the engine 11.1.0

v3.1.3 (2024-02-14)

• Re-throw any exception that can appear while generating HTML report
• Deprecate EvincedRuntimeException. EvincedSDKException should be used instead

v3.1.2 (2024-02-11)

• Fix possible JS Exception on evStart

v3.1.1 (2024-02-11)

• Fix HTML report generation for big amount of issues

v3.0.1 (2024-01-26)

• Enable EvCore

v2.8.1 (2024-01-25)

• Switching to the semantic engine 11.0.1

v2.7.2 (2023-12-18)

• Add memory debugging utils enabled with system variable EV_MEMORY_FOOTPRINT=enable

v2.7.1 (2024-01-15)

• Switching to the semantic engine 11.0.0

v2.6.1 (2023-12-25)

• Add CSV reporting

v2.5.1 (2023-12-25)

• Switching to the semantic engine 10.1.1

v2.4.2 (2023-12-04)

• Workaround for stopAnalysis JavaScript Exception happening on page reload

v2.4.1 (2023-11-23)

• Switching to the semantic engine 10.0.1

v2.3.2 (2023-11-02)

• new method to add axe configurations rule .addRule

v2.3.1 (2023-10-17)

• Exporting reports is added

v2.2.1 (2023-09-18)

• Switching to the semantic engine 8.3.2

v2.1.1 (2023-08-25)

• Switching to the semantic engine 8.2.0

v2.0.1 (2023-08-21)

• Update WebDriverManager to support Chrome versions > 115
• Switching to Java version 11

v1.35.4 (2023-08-14)

• Implement the Screenshots feature to include screenshots to the reports.

v1.34.1 (2023-07-27)

• Global Switch ON/OFF:
  • Protection of being used after evStart was called.
  • The Evinced behavior can be switched off with environment variable EV_SWITCH_ON=false .

v1.33.1 (2023-07-11)

• Method setEnableScreenshots is added to class EvincedConfiguration.

v1.32.1 (2023-06-15)

• Add explicit WebDriver parameter to evSaveFile method.

v1.31.1 (2023-06-09)

• Switching to the semantic engine 8.1.0

  1. [UF] Upgrade axe version to 4.7.2 with minor bugfixes and improvements:

  • link-in-text-block Added needs review violations
  • aria-allowed-attr
  • aria-required-children
  • color-contrast

v1.30.4 (2023-06-08)

• Remove some duplicates with absent code snippets
• Switching to the semantic engine 8.0.0

  1. [UF] Revisited Accessible Name false positives for elements with IDs containing special characters when shadow DOM is supported
  2. [UF] Added Support for new evCore only validation 'Meaningless Alt Text'
  3. [UF] Upgrade axe version to 4.7.0 with minor bugfixes and improvements:

  • scrollable-region-focusable changed severity level from moderate to serious
  • aria-required-children
  • color-contrast
  • link-in-text-block

v1.20.1 (2023-04-25)

• Switching to the semantic engine 7.4.0

  1. [UF] Fixed a crash when internal iframes finish loading before the main window
  2. [UF] Bugfix: Fix crashes when the Shadow DOM toggle is on

v1.19.1 (2023-04-18)

• Removed unnecessary dependency on log4j package
• Added environment variable EV_LOGGING_MODE=enable to switch internal logging on

v1.18.2 (2023-03-31)

• Bug fix: Update Reporter to fix invoking deprecated method in Selenium 4.x

v1.18.1 (2023-03-31)

• Bug fix: Adjust Reporter to work with Selenium 3.x and modern versions of Chrome

v1.17.3 (2023-03-07)

• Switching to the semantic engine version 7.2.1

  • minor bugfix for SVGs at isInViewport calculation
  • enable comparison of EvCore with legacy enginges, toggle: ENABLE_EV_CORE_COMPARISON

v1.17.1 (2023-02-20)

• Update knowledgeBaseLink functionality

v1.16.1 (2023-02-14)

• Add possibility to update knowledgeBaseLink in configuration

v1.15.1 (2023-02-10)

• Switching to the semantic engine version 7.2.0

  • [UF] Provide configuration to override issues' severity level. Usage:

    1CONFIG.CUSTOM_ISSUE_SEVERITY: {
    2  WRONG_SEMANTIC_ROLE: 'Low',
    3  'AXE-ARIA-ALLOWED-ROLE': 'High'
    4}

  • [UF] Provide configuration to override issue's severity names. Usage:

    1CONFIG.CUSTOM_SEVERITY_NAMES: {
    2  CRITICAL: 'High',
    3  SERIOUS: 'High',
    4  MINOR: 'Low'
    5}

  • [UF] Upgrade axe version to 4.6.3 with minor bugfixes and improvements to:
  • link-in-text-block
  • color-contrast
  • aria-required-children
  • scrollable-region-focusable
  • autocomplete-valid

v1.14.3 (2023-01-10)

• Dependencies are removed from distribution jar.
• The latest available versions of dependency packages are used.

v1.14.1 (2023-01-04)

• Switching to the semantic engine version 6.0.0

  1. Delete Evinced "Broken Skip Link" validation
  2. Released a new Evinced validation: "Language Attribute Mismatch"
  3. Improved "Language Attribute Mismatch" validation
  4. Renamed "Text on Image" validation to "Text Contrast on Compound Background" and updated description
  5. Bugfix: Added disabled attribute handling

v1.13.1 (2022-12-28)

• API change: Added ability to switch on/off Evinced functionality EvincedSDK.switchOn(false).
• Fix for missed issues on the last page that could happen sometines.

v1.12.1 (2022-12-23)

• Command evStop will return only issues found between evStart and evStop.
• New boolean configuration option useGlobalPersistentData is added to keep previous behavior of evStop command.
• API change (backward compatible): EvincedSDK is made utility class EvincedSDK.getInstance().setCredentials() -> EvincedSDK.setCredentials()

v1.11.1 (2022-12-20)

• Javadocs are added

v1.10.1 (2022-12-13)

• Support both versions of Selenium WebDriver 3.x and 4.x
• Remove Selenium WebDriver package from SDK jar and transitive dependencies

v1.9.1 (2022-12-02)

• New method evSaveFile(String filename, FileFormat format) is added to save aggregated report.
• Multithreading mode is supported.

v1.8.6 (2022-11-17)

• Support of Firefox browser is added

v1.8.5 (2022-11-17)

• Update sarif report generator
• Update semantic engine version 4.0.0

Ignore validations for dynamically created href (false pos)

v1.8.3 (2022-11-04)

• Update semantic engine version 3.2.2

  Added page visit usage counter

v1.8.2 (2022-11-03)

• Update semantic engine version 3.2.1

  Get tenant name from license token (usage)

v1.8.1 (2022-10-31)

Breaking API Changes:

• Order of parameters for methods

1-    public void setOfflineCredentials(String authToken, String serviceId) {
2+    public void setOfflineCredentials(String serviceId, String authToken) {
3
4-    public void setCredentials(String secret, String serviceId) {
5+    public void setCredentials(String serviceId, String secret) {

v1.7.2 (2022-10-31)

• Correct default internal configuration of feature flags

v1.7.1 (2022-10-25)

• Save running state in multiple driver runs

v1.6.1 (2022-10-18)

• Update semantic engine version 3.1.2

  Fix bounding box calculation

v1.5.1 (2022-10-18)

• Add sarif report

v1.4.1 (2022-10-05)

• Update html report generator

v1.3.1 (2022-09-20)

• Added logging api for server configuration

v1.2.1 (2022-09-20)

• Added licensing

v1.1.1 (2022-09-01)

• Added API to skip validations to tune engine validators settings

v1.0.1 (2022-08-15)

• Support of single run mode with evAnalyze() command.
• Support of flow mode with evStart() and evStop() commands.
• evReport() command to store report in JSON or HTML(v2) format.
• Iframes support.
• Shadow DOM support.
• Semantic engine version 2.0.0

  1. Introducing a new validation: missing focus indication
  2. Rename validation: from now on, focus indication will be called insufficient focus indication
  3. HTML report rebranding